Suzanne Fortier, Recipe Tester

“Intensely maple-y.” “Amazing.“ “Much easier than making pie.” “A recipe I’ll make again and again.” That’s what folks are saying about these spectacularly sweet and gooey maple walnut bars.

• Quick Glance
• 25 M
• 2 H, 30 M
• 0

If we had to choose just one roast chicken to spend the rest of our lives with, this would be the one.

• 15 M
• 2 H
• 72

Hearty, healthy, comforting as heck, and it comes together in a single pot and makes ample leftovers to see you through the rest of the week.

• Quick Glance
• 40 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 0

These quick pickles–quickles!–aren’t at all like the ones your grandma put up each year. They’re better.

• 5 M
• 15 M
• 4

Make no mistake, pancakes they are not. Johnnycakes are lighter and crunchier and grittier and arguably best drenched in butter and maple syrup.

• Quick Glance
• 15 M
• 45 M
• 2

A Scandinavian-style pickle that’s distinctly sweet, just a little sour, and subtly perfumed with dill. So simple it doesn’t even require turning on the stove during the dog days of summer.

• 15 M
• 6 H, 15 M
• 8

Canadian by birth but Southerner by choice, chef Hugh Acheson makes a mean Korean kimchi. And just wait’ll you learn his ideas for using it.

• 45 M
• 3 H, 30 M
• 10

Best potato salad ever. That’s what folks are saying about this easy and, dare we say, elegant spud salad.

• Quick Glance
• 20 M
• 2 H, 20 M
• 34

The words “orange chicken” used to make us think of gloppy Chinese takeout—until we tried this orange chicken.

• 40 M
• 2 H, 40 M
• 15

Just about as traditional as tradition gets save for the slight plot twist of maple syrup.

• 45 M
• 2 H, 10 M
• 2

This classic Italian spaghetti all’aglio e olio is going to rock your world with its understated simplicity and undeniable frugality.

• 5 M
• 20 M
• 14

We call these “stealthy healthy” cuz you certainly can’t tell by the taste that there’s anything nutritionally redeeming about them. (And that’s how we like our healthy food to taste!)

• 10 M
• 2 H
• 16

Admit it, you’ve probably been eating the same tired, jarred sandwich pickles for as long as you’ve been eating sandwiches. No more.

• 25 M
• 2 D
• 2

This zucchini linguine is a panoply of summer abundance with summer squash and herbs crowding out the usual pasta sauce suspects. No complaints here.

• Quick Glance
• 30 M
• 30 M
• 0